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Old 11-09-2016, 11:28 AM   #310
automaton 3
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube View Post
It's funny, this whole election I talked to people about echo chambers and how it caused all of Trumps supporters to band together online into their own private echo chambers of r/the_donald, Fox News, pro-Trump pundits/conspiracy theorists, etc. and all buy into that reality.

I forgot to leave my own echo chamber of liberal, rational, scientific websites and forums and really explore those and realize how powerful the other sides really were.
I ended up reading the sites you listed above and others. I never took Fox seriously before this election but imo they were more in touch with reality.

Many of the mainstream media sources that I generally trust were not very balanced in their coverage. r/politics became completely broken (paid posters?) and I stopped reading it.
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